After downloading The Sims 3 game, it's stuck on the finalizing process after about 2+ hours of waiting. It still says 0% remaining and also 0hs, 0m, and 0s remaining. Go into processes, no sign of DAI, end all origin / EA processes, run as admin, still same. Your DxDiag shows a razor death adder keyboard in the files.
To keep you up to date with the status of players from accessing their Origin account games (mostly multiplayer, although we’re hearing exceptions), we have, well, no news. Unfortunately, despite repeated attempts to receive a statement on EA’s current position on their banning procedure, we have only been met with silence for the last fortnight.
After some, pointing affected customers toward their support lines, we received an ambiguous statement that avoided the current issue and rather said there were plans to “review” whatever the current secret policy might be. And then no responses to our emails since. All the while, we’re hearing of case after case of customers being affected.
I’m building up quite the portfolio of affected gamers, who find after a forum violation they’re unable to access their Origin games. And within this is a more disturbing trend – those who are finding that their forum bans are, without explanation, becoming permanent bans. Permanent bans from accessing their Origin accounts, their Battlelog accounts, and therefore downloading purchased games, and playing online. Something which obviously raises serious questions about consumer rights, which is of course another angle we’re currently investigating. The pattern tends to go like this: Person says a naughty word on an EA forum. Person receives 72 hour ban from forums, which blocks Origin too. Person contacts EA customer support and is told “tough”.
Person writes to RPS. With the occasional addition of: Person finds their ban has become permanent with no warning, and no option to appeal. Of those people who contact us, we tend to get two types. The first who write invective-speckled fury on the forum, and then to us, and obviously entirely deserve their forum bans.
The second are those who have done absolutely nothing wrong on the forums, but are punished erroneously, either for quoting an insult someone else has called them, or doing nothing offensive whatsoever. But neither group, according to, should be being banned from Origin or accessing their games. A statement, however, that EA doesn’t appear willing to repeat nine months on. So there’s Rob, who was accused of posting a commercial to his support site – a site that EA links to itself in its own support site FAQ – who received a ban. And James, permanently banned (until his account mysteriously popped back to life recently, with no communication from anyone) for saying “e-peen”. We’ve heard from Alex, who put a sweary joke on the forum, not directed at anyone, and found himself locked out of his games.
Toma got in touch to say that after previous bans for what sound like entirely unacceptable forum posts, months later he has now found himself banned because of his Gravatar logo – a Reddit troll face. Pointing out that one of the main devs at EA uses the Me Gusta face got nowhere, and he has been told he’ll learn of his account’s fate in seven days, so certainly longer than the traditional 72 hour ban, potentially permanent.
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Most exceptional perhaps is Aaron, who after receiving a 72 hour ban was told by EA support they couldn’t help because “the game developers control this”. Someone else swearing on the forum, with his username in their post. Trying the live chat support instead, he was then informed that his account was permanently banned, and that “all property, items, and characters associated currently are or will soon be deleted.” Followed by, “Is there anything else I can do for you?” Aaron tried again, pointing out that forum bans shouldn’t affect games. And then came this incredible reply: “Please be informed that your account not only suspended, But it is also Banned, So you will no longer to play the game in single player.” Aaron. At this point, with no reply from those within EA who have responded to this matter in the past, we can only suggest that our readers avoid the EA forums. The chances of being banned seem far too risky, when the consequences are the loss of access to products you have paid for. We are aware we’re not the only ones looking into the legality of this matter.
Source: Electronic Arts Consuming media is becoming more and more complicated, thanks to the at our fingertips. First came music startups like Pandora and Spotify. Then came video services like Netflix and HBO Go. Now we’re starting to see similar services for video games. It’s a brave new world out there, gamers!
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Like subscription services for music and video, gaming subscriptions give players a wide selection of games they can play for a monthly fee. Which begs the question: Are these subscriptions worth it?
We’ve already. Now let’s focus on Origin Access, the subscription service offered by game developer and publisher Electronic Arts. Here’s what Origin Access is, along with some pros, cons, and our final recommendation.
What you get with Origin Access Origin Access is a gaming subscription service available to PC gamers. It offers subscribers three benefits. Play upcoming EA games five days early.
Free access to select older EA games. A 10% discount on EA games on Origin For those three benefits, subscribers pay $5 per month. Pros Early access to new games With Origin Access, you can try EA games five days before they come out.
Not only is it exciting to have access to games other people are still waiting to play, but it gives you enough time to decide whether you want to buy a game when it officially launches. Note that early access to some games is limited to a couple of levels, like a demo or trial version of the game. That said, your save carries over if you choose to buy the full game once it launches. It’s reasonably priced At $5 per month, Origin Access is more affordable than your average media subscription. Granted, its value is limited because not every game you want to play will come from EA, but assuming you enjoy the occasional EA title, $5 a month isn’t too much to ask. The game vault has some good games While it doesn’t have any new games, the vault of titles you can play at no additional cost isn’t half bad. With big titles like Battlefield Hardline, Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Fifa 15, you’ll have plenty of games to keep you busy for quite some time.
EA adds to the selection occasionally. Cons It’s limited to EA games This one may be obvious, but it’s the service’s biggest limitation: The only games available through Origin Access are games published by Electronic Arts.
If you don’t pay much attention to which company publishes which games, you’ll have to check out the games in the vault and look at upcoming EA games to see if enough of them appeal to you to be worth the price of admission. After all, there’s no reason to subscribe to a service if it doesn’t have games you want to play.
It’s not on Mac or Linux Don’t have a Windows PC? You’re out of luck. While PC is the platform of choice for most computer gamers, Mac has been, and there are a good number of Linux gamers out there, too.
Might Origin Access come to Mac and Linux eventually? Sure, but don’t count on it.
The game vault doesn’t have many games While the EA Access game vault has some gems like Dragon Age: Inquisition and the Dead Space trilogy, it only has 27 games at the time of this writing (you can see ). Making matters worse, some of them are pretty old. More games will be hitting the vault in the future, but don’t expect to see any big games arrive until EA stops making money on them elsewhere. 10% isn’t much of a discount While a 10% discount is better than nothing, you can probably do better elsewhere. If you already have an Amazon Prime membership, you get as long as you preorder them or purchase them within two weeks of their original launch date. Best Buy also has a membership program called Gamers Club Unlocked that costs $30 for two years and gets you 20% off new releases. Bottom line I would recommend subscribing to Origin Access only under certain conditions.
The service is the best value when EA has lots of high quality games coming soon because that’s when you get a chance to play them early. During the time between those releases, you can keep yourself busy by playing games from the vault, but again the vault is pretty limited at the moment. My advice would be to sign up for a month when there’s a game coming out that you want to play. Play it for the five-day preview period, then buy it for 10% off if you want, and play games from the vault for the rest of the month. If you enjoy the experience and want to do it for another month, have at it. Otherwise, cancel it until the next EA game you want to play becomes available for early access. Follow Chris on Twitter Check out on Facebook!
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